Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1202]
28. The Medici of the Republic Upper-class religion, fashion, domesticarrangements, invention of Christmas, Lafayette returns, Greeks revive, patricians patronize the arts and architecture (Cooper, Cole, et al.).
29. Working Quarters Callithumpian bands, plebeian neighborhoods, women and work, sex and saloons, theater and religion, jumping Jim Crow, “running wid de machine.”
30. Reforms and Revivals Poverty and pauperism, urban missionaries, schools, reformatories, poorhouses, hospitals, jails.
31. The Press of Democracy Fanny Wrightists, democrats and aristocrats, workers and bosses, birth of the penny press.
32. The Destroying Demon of Debauchery Finney v. Fanny, temperance and Graham crackers, Magdalens and whores.
33. White, Green, and Black Catholics and nativists, drawing the color line, white slaves and smoked Irish, abolitionists and the underground railroad.
34. Rail Boom Railroads, manufacturing, real estate, stock market, housing high and low. Brooklyn: the Second City. Good times, pleasure gardens.
35. Filth, Fever, Water, Fire Garbage, cholera, Croton, and the Great Blaze.
36. The Panic of 1837 Labor wars, equal rights, flour riot. The boom collapses, whys and wherefores.
37. Hard Times Life in depression. Battles over relief and the role ofgovernment. Revivals and Romanism. Gangs, police, and P. T. Barnum.
PART FOUR EMPORIUM AND MANUFACTURING CITY (1844-1879)
38. Full Steam Ahead The great boom of the 1840s and 1850s: immigration, foreign trade, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and finance. The Crystal Palace and the Marble Palace.
39. Manhattan, Ink New York as national media center: telegraph, newspapers, books, writers, art market, photography.
40. Seeing New York Flaneuring the city. Crowds and civilization. Lights and shadows. Mysteries and histories. Poe, Melville, Whitman, and the city asliterary subject.
41. Life Above Bleecker The new bourgeoise repairs to its squares. Uppertendom opulence and middle-class respectability. Sex, feminism, baseball, religion, and death.
42. City of Immigrants New immigrant and working-class neighborhoods in the 1840s and 1850s. Irish and Germans at work and play. Jews and Catholics. B ‘hoys and boxing. The underworld and the world of Mose.
43. Co-op City Plebeian opposition to the new urban order: the Astor Riot, land reform, co-ops, nativism, red republicanism, unionism.
44. Into the Crazy-Loved Dens of Death Upper- and middle-class reformersdebate laissez-faire and environmentalism. Welfare, education, health, housing, recreation. Central Park.
45. Feme Decovert The homosoc ial city. Female discontents and feministdemands. Prostitution exposed. Abortion defended. Free love and fashion. Jenny Lind and commercial culture.
46. Louis Napoleon and Fernando Wood Eyeing Haussmann's Paris. City-building, Tammany style. Municipal politics indicted. Mayor Wood as civic hero. The loss of home rule. Police riots and Dead Rabbits.
47. The Panic of 1857 The boom falters. New Yorkers divide over how to deal with hard times.
48. The House Divides Sectional and racial antagonisms. Republicans, blacks, the struggle for civil rights. John Brown's body.
49. Civil Wars The city's mercantile elite first backs the South, then swings into the Union camp. B'hoys, g'hals, and reformers to war. New York's role infinancing and supplying the war effort forges the Shoddy Aristocracy. Carnage and class.
50. The Battle for New York The politics of Emancipation and death. The Draft Riots. The plot to burn New York.
51. Westward, Ho! The merchant community, its historic ties to the South ruptured, turns westward. Railroading sustains boom into the late 1860s and 1870s. Wall Street and the West. The West and Wall Street.
52. Reconstructing New York Radical Republicans seek to reform housing, health, and fire fighting and to win the black franchise.
53. City Building Boss Tweed builds roads, bridges,